Sweetwater Oklahoma Author:Stanley W. Beesley In the boughs, chimes I'd strung years ago plinked an irate, whangy melody like Jimi Hendrix raised up in Danang. I wished I could go on to the Fleur Rouge with my fishing pole, but I knew that was impossible, for my duty lay in finding and arresting my best friend, who had finally killed a lawman." So begins, "Killing Scissor-tailed Flycat... more »chers is Unlawful," one in a collection of connected short stories in SWEETWATER, OKLAHOMA. Sweetwater is a thriving small city of the modern prairie, inhabited by a country of people common and curious at the same time, a folk whose lives range from the earthly and discouraged to the sublime. SWEETWATER, OKLAHOMA is a book full of surprises. We pull for a fugitive Indian godfather on the run. We visit a defiant lady rancher fighting to hold on to land and life. We watch an adulterous soap opera father trying to win back a son he has forsaken. Many more colorful citizens and their stories await us in this book to relish.« less